Am Sun, 9 Aug 2015 14:37:26 +1000 schrieb David Seikel <[email protected]>:
> On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 12:35:56 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 03:19:07 +0200 Daniel Christopher Würl > > <[email protected]> said: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > as a long-term e16 user who migrated to fvwm some eight months > > > ago, I'm toying with the idea of installing e19. > > > > > > Since I currently run debian 8 this would be a time consuming > > > task, so I'd like to ask some questions before I spend some hours > > > in vein ;) > > > > > > How stable is the API / theming API ? > > > I really love to create my own themes, but I'm not motivated to > > > fix them over every minor revision. Same goes for EFL, I'm > > > perfectly happy to hack together some tools I need, but I'm not > > > ready to adapt them to a moving target all the time. > > > > > > How long does a release of enlightenment "live" ? > > > > there were some minor breaks (little things changed) between e17 and > > e18. we're keeping things stable since then though theme expands and > > thus there are new things to theme if you want a complete look, so > > over time it requires work anyway to keep up. > > > > > Mostly part of above questions, but having to compile the whole > > > efl / enlightenment stack every other month would be a bit > > > off-putting. > > > > compiling efl is easy. if you bother once to write the procedure in > > a script and then just re-run it every time. the script > > clones/updates git repos and walks through n dirs re-building each > > one maybe with specific options. if you bother doing it just once > > for yourself, then everything after that is gravy. what that script > > has may vary from person to person, distro to distro, but the raw > > content of it is on the enlightenment.org docs on how to get/build > > e and efl. i scripted my builds so long ago i'ts not funny. i just > > don't get this "oh but it's SOOOOOOOOOO hard" line. it's an excuse > > for not having simply written down the commands in a script for > > yourself ONCE. i just use my scripts and for me it's: > > > > svup.sh > > rbe.sh > > > > (yes my svup.sh script was from svn days - i modified it for git - i > > have 2 as i want to update separately to building). > > Many of the EFL developers have their own build script in git. I > have one in the Enlightenment git at > > https://git.enlightenment.org/admin/devs.git/tree/developers/onefang/build_efl.lua > > Which tries to compile most of the stuff we host in git. Other > developers have their build scripts in the admin/devs area of the git > as well. > > > the biggest bit of work is getting your dependencies installed > > (once). that is the real work. not rebuilding or updating. > > Yep, a build script wont help with that, as it's generally only done > once. Most of the dependencies are listed on the > https://www.enlightenment.org/download page that includes basic build > instructions. > Ok, thanks for the explanation ;) Aside from the file manager everything sounds good so far, so I'll give it a try ;D Best wishes, Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
